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post #1 of 8
3/31/04 at 7:05pm
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Is it true you have to pay to play online on FF XI... I don't wanna buy the HDD and FF XI if I have to pay to be online with everyone else.
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post #2 of 8
3/31/04 at 7:07pm
Yeah, it's like $12 a month or something.
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post #3 of 8
3/31/04 at 7:07pm
Yes, $12.95 a month.
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post #4 of 8
3/31/04 at 7:34pm
Consider it cleared. Monthly fee = yes.

- Fate
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post #5 of 8
3/31/04 at 8:32pm
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Forget it...I'll wait till they sell the HDD separately.
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post #6 of 8
3/31/04 at 10:32pm
Just so you know, outside of say MUDS, and a few open source titles, MMORPG's all have monthly payment plans.
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post #7 of 8
3/31/04 at 11:29pm
Exactly. Practically no worthwhile MMORPG is free. Monthly fees are usually within the $10-$20 range. I imagine Square lost quite a few of its younger buyers with FFXI because of the credit card issue.
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post #8 of 8
3/31/04 at 11:41pm
If people had any idea what it takes to run an MMO, they'd know why it isn't free. It requires a dedicated team of knowledgeable (and highly paid) tech support personnel, a large (and less well paid) staff of customer service reps, coders and testers to deliver patches (and all decent MMOs release large, content laden patches on a regular basis), hardware and software investments and upkeep, and the most important expense of all- BANDWIDTH. Barrels and barrels of it. And that's all after you've developed a content-heavy game application.
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